Zaphid
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I doubt Kespa players will come and ESF players probably don't have that much money to go. Single stream is a joke for 128 player event, unless they let community handle that, the event will be massively under-covered, so unless you are sending a player that has shot at top16, you might as well not bother. Rumors are they wanted invitational for the sweet stream numbers, but Blizzard wouldn't give them WCS points and support if they didn't make it open, so in the end we have a cop-out. It feels like they had to run an event, but they want to spend as little as possible. Yes, open bracket is great, but there are no words on reserved spots, so we might get some extra drama.
edit: Apparently to be eligible for WCS tier 1 event, you need only 25% spots to be open and those can be filled with online qualifiers. Not surprised they went with open bracket with their online qualifier track record.
edit: Apparently to be eligible for WCS tier 1 event, you need only 25% spots to be open and those can be filled with online qualifiers. Not surprised they went with open bracket with their online qualifier track record.
Considering no more than a day ago it looked like there would be no SC2 at Anaheim I'm glad with anything
Itlan
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Can someone help me out please? I'd really like to see the GSL matches leading up to this shit, but I live on the east coast and work at 8 AM erry day so I can't catch GSL and I'm fucking broke cause Sallie Mae continues to shove her 42,000 inch dildo up my ass.
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Sidian
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Pretty much this. Just go to a torrent site and search for GSL 2013 or just GSL and you should get stuff. I know I've done this before and it's nice because you actually get the .avi files rather then being forced to stream it anytime you want to rewatch it.
Soulkey training with Flash is pretty sweet, especially since Flash is probably the only Terran that has a semi-similar playstyle to Innovation. Still though, I can't get behind the Soulkey train, I believe Innovation will still crush.
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GSL Finals:
Gonna spoiler this shit since it just happened.
Gonna spoiler this shit since it just happened.
Game 1: 12/12, ez win for Innovation. It was great rax placement from Innovation and his placement on the bunkers was solid. I'm hoping to see some nice Macro games though.
It's weird because everybody is saying Soulkey's defense is so godlike, yet between that and all the early cannon rushes he couldn't block against sOs, like wtfmate. Maybe he just sucks at defending super early cheese or something.
Game 2: Roach Hydra vs Biomine. Lotta action through out the whole game. Fun watch. Soulkey kind of choked around the end though imo, took waaay too much damage with the drops into his main. 2-0 Innovation. ezpz
It's weird because everybody is saying Soulkey's defense is so godlike, yet between that and all the early cannon rushes he couldn't block against sOs, like wtfmate. Maybe he just sucks at defending super early cheese or something.
Game 2: Roach Hydra vs Biomine. Lotta action through out the whole game. Fun watch. Soulkey kind of choked around the end though imo, took waaay too much damage with the drops into his main. 2-0 Innovation. ezpz
Zaphid
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Pretty much, Atlas is like a bigger version of WW with more chokes. Sure you could technically get a nice surround anyway but Innovation won't let that happen. Though we might see 2rax and Soulkey somehow defends it, so we get at least g5, but when you have to hope your opponent fucks up, you ain't gonna be the champion.
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I know Soulkey was hoping to catch Innovation off guard with the whole baneling bust early, but I really wish he would of just done a completely standard macro game. Especially since they were in cross positions I think it would have been extremely fun to watch. Maybe he's not confident going against Innovation end game though, who knows. I guess we could see a completely standard macro game on Atlas but as you said, more chokes, which makes the already unbeatable Innovation that much more unbeatable.